Freak hailstorm turns part of tropical Kenya white by Radka Konkolova

Our planet is beginning to become a crazy place. The weather recently is kind of strange and very vague. You could notice this fact on more often and stronger tropical storms, whirlwinds, extreme dryness or vice versa, on extreme floods occurring every summer. All of those mentioned is a consequence of the global warming, greenhouse effect and of thinning of the ozone layer. Thanks this, the atmosphere and actually the whole Earth is not protected enough and weather changes are sometimes very strange, strength and rough.

Hurricane Gustav which hit and hurt American east coast fortunately already passed away, but it is still not the end of the same elements. It can seem the nature got crazy. I know, hurricanes have been not as unusual but usually they are not so often and severe. Nowadays there are more “serious” or to say it better, stranger situations and weather conditions.

For example, what is very strange or maybe unbelievable is the snow in Africa. Of course there is some on the tops of the highest hills and mountains but yesterday it was found also under them. This miracle took place in Kenya, where people were very surprised, but this was also very exciting experience for them. It was because most of them have never seen the snow and ice before and they were also very happy because of that. The reason of the snowy land has been that hailstorm went through this state and cheered Africans. The snow covered the whole hillside and was viewable even 12 hours afterwards even in spite of very high temperatures.

Villagers from Kenya were probably little bit afraid of this because according to the news some of them were certain that Jesus was coming back to them. But of course, it was not true. The right reason was the air circulation. According to the Kenya’s Meteorological Department Tuesday’s storm was caused by the convergence of cold air currents from the Indian Ocean and warm air currents from the Congo.

Well, this phenomenon is very rare in that part of the world but I think Africans would welcome such chilling maybe more often…

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_kenya_weather;_ylt=AtEj6ulKCD8MAThZX9lJs7Ws0NUE

by Radka Konkolova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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